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The Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence has won the 64th Eurovision Song Contest, as Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke finished ninth. Laurence scored 492 points with his ballad “Arcade” at the grand final in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday morning. “This is to dreaming big, this is to music first always,” Laurence said following the win. Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke …

Comedian Tom Ballard has joined a number of Australians calling for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel this weekend. The popular competition kicked off earlier this week in Tel Aviv after Israel’s contestant Netta won last year. Australia’s contender Kate Miller-Heidke will compete in the grand final on Sunday morning Australian time. …

A US spinoff of the Eurovision Song Contest is in development. The popular song contest will this weekend wrap up its 64th edition this weekend in Tel Aviv, Israel, with 41 countries from Europe and elsewhere vying to win. And in the leadup to the grand final, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has announced it …

Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke has been voted into the grand final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after a dazzling performance at the first semi final. The 37-year-old Queenslander took to the stage in Tel Aviv, Israel about 6am AEST on Wednesday to belt out an operatic rendition of Zero Gravity, a song inspired by her …

Queen and Adam Lambert have announced they’ll return to Australia next year for a national stadium tour, off the back of the success of Freddy Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. The band’s new Rhapsody Tour will bring them to six Australian stadium venues in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast in February next …

Actor Taron Egerton and Elton John’s husband David Furnish have said they’ll “strongly resist” any censorship of the upcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman‘s gay content as the movie is released in different countries around the world. Egerton plays the gay music icon in the “epic musical fantasy” about Elton’s early years, and in a new …

Sam Smith has revealed in a new interview that he does not identify with any one gender and considers himself non-binary and genderqueer. The singer has appeared on the first episode of actress Jameela Jamil’s Instagram Live show I Weigh Interviews. In the candid half-hour interview, Smith discussed his relationship with his own body image …

Australian rapper Iggy Azalea has taken to social media to tease an upcoming collaboration with RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Mayhem Miller. The rapper has been teasing her upcoming single “Sally Walker” – the first release from her second studio album In My Defense – on her Twitter account, and last weekend …

Elton John has announced that he will tell “the truth” about his life in a “no-holds-barred” autobiography this October. In a video posted to his Twitter account, John explained, “I can’t wait for you to read it, because it’s the truth… and so many books that have been written about me haven’t exactly been truthful.” …

Lady Gaga has sent a touching message of joy to Sydney Mardi Gras revellers ahead of this year’s festivities. Gaga was a standout at the 2019 Academy Awards earlier this week, winning the Oscar for Best Original Song for A Star is Born breakout song “Shallow” alongside co-writers Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, and Anthony Rossomando. …